Specifications

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The “.CUS” Files
count as “half” operations. This means that an owner could do twice as many of functions
“0” and/or “7” as any other owners menu actions.
The default number of operations remains at two, just as with the older hardwired code.
However, our current factory default is to set it to four.
Maxowners nnn ; Set the maximum number of owner access
; operations to “nnn”. The value must be
; between 1 and 255.
MaxRecycle
The MaxRecycle command allows callers to “recycle” a call, letting them enter multiple
telephone numbers with a single telephone call. By entering a DTMF “#” into the “Thank
You” prompt at the end of a call, or into the main Owners Menu prompt, the caller will be
given the “Enter Pager Number” prompt. At this point the call can be considered as being
to an End To End line, even though the call may be on a DID line. If the caller enters an
invalid telephone number the invalid number prompt will be played. At that point the
caller may enter a “#” in order to re-enter the subscriber number.
The caller may continue to recycle the call after placing each page, or performing owner
access operations, until the system wide recycle limit set by MaxRecycle is reached. Each
page, owner access, or invalid number counts as one call recycle action. Thus, there is no
way to stay in recycle mode indefinitely. The caller will always end up being
disconnected.
At the end of a call that has performed a total of two or more operations using call
recycling, an extra line will be posted in the log. This line will have the original number
called as its telephone number, and will report the number of operations performed. The
status field will be filled in as “call done”.
When call recycling is enabled, the system operator may control which subscribers may
do call recycling. This is done by only giving “thank you” prompts to those subscribers
who are to be allowed to have call recycling. If MaxRecycle is set OFF then enabling the
“thank you” prompt just controls the playing of that prompt.
During call recycling, all operations after the original, start of call inherit some attributes
of the original call. The thank-you prompt status and the priority of the original subscriber
ID will be applied to all further subscriber IDs entered. This insures that a caller who has
call recycling enabled will be able to continue to recycle, even though some subscriber
IDs he enters do not normally get the thank-you prompt.
Call recycling requires that the system have a “Thank You” prompt. Thus, it will not work
on systems without a voice controller card.
When using recycling with DID lines a DID overdial number should be set up to control
the number of overdial digits expected on any recycle (2nd through Nth) subscriber
number entry. If you do not have the DID overdial feature programmed for a trunk, and
attempt call recycling on that trunk, the operation will fail. If the trunk is already using the
DID overdial feature for some other purpose, then call recycling will be forced to use that
number of feed digits. Normally, this should not be a problem as DID overdial is usually